The Islamic State threatens to conquer Rome. (21st February 2015) Made by whole group together.
In a recently released video that showed the killing of 21 Christians in Libya, all but one of them Egyptian, the Islamic State issued an ominous warning: "Today we are south of Rome," one masked militant said. "We will conquer Rome with Allah's permission." Exactly what "Rome" means to the Islamic State is unclear -- some experts say it may actually be a reference to the United States or Turkey, or even the West in general. But Italy is worried. Libya is just a short boat ride across the Mediterranean. Thousands of refugees already make this journey to Italian shores every year.
The Islamic State cages and burns alive fifty people in Iraq. (21st February 2015) Made by the whole group together
Islamic State militants have reportedly burnt 45 people alive near the town Al-Baghdadi in western Iraq. News of the atrocities follows the recent beheading of 21 Christians in Libya and the brutal burning to death of a Jordanian pilot. According to local police chief Colonel Qasim al-Obeidi, cited by the BBC, some of the executed people may be from Iraqi security forces, but no precise data was given. Al-Obeidi also reportedly said the town was under attack, particularly its security forces and official buildings, and asked the Iraqi government and international community for help. The current crime is the second case of burning people to death this year. In the beginning of February, the insurgents released a video showing the execution of Jordanian pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh. Al-Kasasbeh was captured by militants in late December, when they downed his jet over Syria as it participated in US-led airstrikes against the militant group. According to the video, he was burnt alive in a cage.
Jordanian pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh
The Islamic State have published a new video in which they assured they have killed 21 Kurdos (22.nd February 2015) Made by Diego Rodríguez.
The Islamic State has published at the last moment of this Saturday a newly video in which a spokesperson informs about the execution to 21 Kurdish soldiers to those who before had been forced to parade in cages through the streets of Kirkuk's Iraqi locality. The video includes a series of interviews to the , that a person realizes with a microphone in hand with a logo of the Islamic State. The video, which production CNN describes like " consisting of relation to other pieces of executions of Islamic State ", is entitled " Curing the heart of the believers " and it is written in Kurd, with subtitles in Arab.
The British soldier who had joined the Peshmerga to fight against the Islamic State has been found. (23th February 2015) Made by Diego Rodríguez.
A British soldier in service that had joined the peshmerga Kurdish forces in the fight against the terrorist group of the Islamic State has been found and repatriated of return to United Kingdom, as the Defense Secretary, Michael Fallon, has announced this Monday in London. The man, as British means had informed last week, said to his friends and family that he was considering to stay one year in Middle East, as he was the first soldier in service in joining the Kurdish forces. A small number of former military men also have done it.
" The soldier given for missing last week has been located and returned to his unit ", has made clear Fallon to the Parliament, declining to do more comments on the details of the case.
Fallon has said that in total approximately 600 British military men are involved in the fight against Islamic State, included more than 140 in Iraq. United Kingdom has been taking part in the air bombardments against the terrorist group in Iraq and is training to the Iraqi forces and peshmerga on the area.
British Defense Secretary, Michael Fallon
A terrorist attack towards Iran´s embassy in Libya leaves no victims. (23rd February 2015)Made by Irene Paradela.
Two explosive devices have exploted in front of the Iranian embassy in Libya, leaving "no mortal victims and no significant damages", according to what police has said. The Statal Iranian Agency has specified that, fortunately, their presence in Libya is temporally closed, and so they currently don´t have official representation in the libian capital. The Iranian minister has condemned this attack, and the Islamic State (ISIS) has taken responsability for it.
"A first bomb has exploted in the embassy´s door, and then a second one has been thrown to its inside", explains Isam al Nas, the representative of the national forces. Fortunately, only the door and the windows of the near embassy of Ukraine have suffered some type of damage.
Spanish police arrest Islamic State 'recruiters' in Melilla and Catalonia. (24th February 2015)Made by Irene Paradela.
Spanish police has arrested four people linked to a sophisticated social media campaign that recruited women to join terrorist groups like Islamic state (Isis) on Tuesday, Spain’s interior ministery has said. Authorities have said that the two in Melilla, who managed several internet platforms that spread propaganda for terrorist groups such as ISIS, “were dedicated to the recruitment of women, who after a process of indoctrination, would end up integrated into the terrorist group”. The two arrested in Melilla also organised meetings at homes, showing potential recruits videos and materials from Isis in an effort to persuade them to travel to Iraq and Syria to join the conflict. They were successful in convincing a number of young people, said the ministry, who had begun making travel preparations. In Catalonia, those arrested included a man who had edited and distributed videos to recruit potential jihadis, as well as a man who had identified himself in a CNN report as a supporter of ISIS living in a western society.
Spanish civil guards detaining a man suspicious of using social media to recruit people for violent groups like ISIS.
At least 28 dead people in a chain of explosions in Baghdad and it's surroundings. (24th February 2015)Made by Diego Rodríguez.
At least 28 persons have died in a chain of seven explosions registered in the capital of Iraq, Baghdad, and in it's surroundings, as medical and police sources have reported. In Jisr Diyala's district, placed in the south-east of the city, fifteen people have died at least for two explosions, one of them provoked by a car bomb. Little before, other five explosions have taken place in peripheral neighborhoods of the north and the south of the Iraqi capital.
For the present time, there has no been a recovery of the authorship of the assaults, which have come in a moment in which the Iraqi security forces are fighting against the militiamen of the Islamic State to take the zones that they control in the north and the west of the country.
In Anbar's province, in the west of Iraq, Iraqi troops endorsed by military men and tribal soldiers have tried to expel the Islamic State from Al-Baghdadi, or shores of the river Euphrates. This locality is only three kilometres from the east of Ain's air base to Roast, where the United States' government train Iraqi military men who will fight against Islamic State.
Islamic State releases 19 Christians, more than 200 still captive. (1st March 2015)Made by Irene Paradela.
Islamic State released 19 Assyrian Christian captives in Syria on Sunday after processing them through a sharia court, a monitoring group which tracks the conflict said. More than 200 Assyrians remain in Islamic State hands, said the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, captives from an Islamic State advance last month that overran more than a dozen villages inhabited by the ancient Christian minority near Hasaka, a northeastern city mainly held by the Kurds. Islamic State has not claimed any of the abductions. The Observatory tracks the conflict using a network of sources on all sides of the civil war which spiraled as security forces used violence to suppress protests against President Bashar al-Assad's rule in 2011. It said 17 men and two women were released. Islamic State has killed members of religious minorities and Sunni Muslims who do not swear allegiance to its self-declared "caliphate". The group last month released a video showing its members beheading 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya.
Smoke rises in a village in Iraq after the ISIS has taken control of it.
Iraqi forces try to seal off Islamic State around Tikrit.(3rd March 2015)Made by Irene Paradela.
Thousands of Iraqi soldiers and Shiite militiamen sought to seal off Islamic State fighters in Tikrit and nearby towns on Tuesday, the second day of Iraq’s biggest offensive yet against a stronghold of the radical Sunni Islamist militants.
Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, who has helped coordinate Baghdad’s counter-attacks against Islamic State since it seized much of northern Iraq in June, was overseeing at least part of the operation, witnesses said.
Iraqi military officials said security forces backed by the Shiite militia known as Hashid Shaabi (Popular Mobilization) units were advancing gradually, their progress slowed by roadside bombs and snipers. They have alredy entered Tikrit, which officials describe as the major centre of the Islamic State fighters.
The offensive is the biggest military operation in the Salahuddin region north of Baghdad since last summer, when Islamic State fighters killed hundreds of Iraqi soldiers who had abandoned their military base at Camp Speicher outside Tikrit.
To the west of Mosul, Islamic State fighters attacked Kurdish forces in the town of Sinjar on Monday, a senior peshmerga source said. Nine peshmerga and 45 militants were killed in the fighting, which began with a suicide car bomb in the Nasr quarter of the town.
Islamic State “wants to show people they can still attack and inflict losses on the peshmerga,” the source said. Kurdish forces currently control around 30 percent of the town of Sinjar, as well as the hills to the north and the mountain overlooking it.
Iraqi government forces and allied militias fire a rocket from a position in the northern part of Diyala province, as they take part in an assault to retake the city of Tikrit from the Islamic State group.
Yihadist called John has been identified. (6th March 2015)Made by Alicia Ruiz
This is a screenshot from a yihadist video in wich Jhon is guardering the two japanese hostages.
Jhon the yihadist has been identify as a twenty years old man from London ,that leaved in the east part of london and studied technolochy in the Westminster university. He was borned in Kuwait, and he has decapiteted several people in the yihadist videos.
His identidy has been investigated using diferent techniques,such us identifying his voice from the videos and interviewing diferent survival hostages.After the realease of the video of the beheading of an American journalist ,James Foley,last summer, the FBI sayed that they could have identifyed the famous executioner.Although his identity has been keep secretly,Jhon appear in four more videos murdering more western hostages.
Emwazi,according to sources cited by the Post,arrived to Syria in 2012.After graduating from college , he trvelled to Tanzania with the intention of making a safari.Upon landing in Dar es Salaam,in May 2009 ,they were arrested by the police and eventually deported.Emwazi tghen travelled to Amsterdam .There, according to emails to the Washingtong Post ,the British intelligence service MI5 accused of attempting to travel to Somalia to join the Islamist war that operated in the south.Emwatzi denied the accusation ,repñying thar was the MI5 that tried to recruit him.In autumn 2009 he returned to Britain.Then he moved to Kuwait ,where he worked in a computer company , and returned at least twice the UK ,one to fix the papers to marry a Kuwaiti in 2010.The British anti-terrorist police came to arrest him,preventing him to Kuwait the next day .He was according to the testimonies of anonimous friends collected by the USE diary,ansious to escape London.The same frieds remember how polite,elegant and religious he was.
We belive that he came to Siria in 2012..Although we dont know how he did it.There he contacted with his familie and we a friend,but we dont really know what he told them about his activity there.
A exrehén has recounted how Emwazi in 2013 was part of a team, including two Britons , to monitor prisoners in premises of Idlib .
Emwazi seamed to be the lider of the team.At the begining of 2014 the hostages wre translated to Rgga,which is the center of operartions of the islamic estate in Siria.There,they continue recieving visits of Emwazi ,who seamed to have assumed most inportant task in the administration.
The British govermet havent confirmed yet taht Emwazi is Jhonn the yihadist.
Universal justice against the islamic state (06/03/2015) by Alicia Ruiz
The islamic state has destroyed ancient art pieces and documents from the past,commiting barbareties and lots of murderings because of their religion.But it is not the first time that they have done it.With each demolation of those pieces,they are commeting serious crimes,and justice can also be apploid in this cases.
It consists of an agreement between 126 countries ,also Spain and Irak,approved in 1954, says: that it doesnt matter your nationality, if you have destroyed or commited a crime agaist these historical monuments and documents, you must be punnished because of your acctions.
ISIS spread a video in which is shown a group of yihadists destroying pieces of the Mosul museum in Iraq. (6th March 2015) Made by Alicia Ruiz.
A group of yihadists with big hammers has destroyed the pieces of the Mosul museum, spreading a video in which they show them committing this attrocities. Many people have interpreted this as an incitation to violence. Although a big ammount of ancient books and monuments have been destroyed or burned,some art pieces have been transported to Siria, maybe with the intention of selling them.
The Islamic State destroys the ancient city of Hatra (7th March 2015)Made by Diego Rodríguez
Militiamen from the Islamic State have destroyed Hatra's ancient city, placed in the south of Mosul (Nínive's province), according to official sources. The city, which dates back to 200 B.C., was the capital of the former Parto Empire.
"Militiamen from the Islamic State have begun to destroy with spades the historical city of Fed Hatra, near Mosul. It is a historical place from which many famous kings had governed", has made clear a person in charge of the Democratic Party of the Kurdistan for Mosul, Saeed Mamuzini, in declarations to the agency of news Kurdish Rudaw.
According to Mamuzini, "The city of Hatra is very big and it sheltered multitude of antiquities in his interior". "The Islamic State has taken the ancient coins of gold and silver", he has made clear. Hatra is located in plenary desert, approximately 110 kilometres from Mosul, the second most populated city in Iraq and under control of the yihadistas from the last June.
The Parto Empire was the principal rival of the Roman Empire for the hegemony in the Middle East in the first years of our age.
Ancient city of Hatra
Spain condemns the destruction of Nimrud's ruins in hands of the Islamic State. (7th March 2015)Made by Diego Rodríguez
The Spanish Government has condemned this Friday the destruction of the ruins of the asirian city of Nimrud, in the north of Iraq, perpetrated by the terrorist group of the Islamic State, which it has been qualified of acts of barbarism". According to the State Department of Foreign Policy and Cooperation, Islamic State "tries to uselessly annihilate history". In this respect, "he trusts that the authors of these crimes against the Heritage of the Humanity will answer for them before the Justice". The Spanish Government has remembered that it supports Iraq "in his effort for recovering the peace and the national concord". Finally, he has assured that Madrid endorses Baghdad "in the combat against Islamic State in the frame of the international coalition formed by request of the inclusive Government of Iraq".
ISIS destroying Nimrud
Islamic State creates a network of local producers of television to cover the whole caliphate and to extend his diffusion. (7th March 2015)Made by Diego Rodríguez.
Islamic State has given one more step in his desire to show to the world his criminal actions and for it it has created a producers' network of television with the aim to cover quite easily his territory and to increase this way the diffusion of his audio-visual messages, principally in the social networks. A television for every province, each one with his own logo, reporters, microphones with the flag of the group and own autonomy, but following all of them the same boss that there mark both big producers of images of the group: Al Hayat and Al Furqan, more powerful in average and capable of elaborating contents of great cinematographic quality.
It is like a network of local televisions distributed by all the provinces ('wilayas') which belong to the autoproclaimed caliphate of Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi.
These new audio-visual producers do not limit themselves only to Syria and Iraq, they have also started elaborating contents in other places in which faithful movements have arisen to the Islamic State such as Lybia.
Islamic State video purports to show a child shooting an Arab Israeli ‘spy’ (11th March 2015)Made by Irene Paradela
The latest video posted by the Islamic State carries a chilling twist: It appears to show a young boy in camouflage fatigues taking aim with a handgun and pumping fatal shots into a man the extremist group called “an Israeli spy.” In East Jerusalem, however, the parents of the Arab Israeli victim described him as a misguided teen who was duped into joining the Islamic State and killed because he wanted to come home.
“They took my son, they tricked him. They offered him money, a house and a bride, and he told us he had been lied to and that he was sorry for the disgrace he brought upon our house,” said Hind Musallam, mother of Mohammad Said Ismail Musallam, 19.
Family members said they had not watched the video, released late Tuesday, but had seen still images. They confirmed that the man shot was Musallam. The video shows a man identified as Musallam sitting in a room in an orange jumpsuit and describing how the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad had recruited him.
The boy steps forward, — standing face-to-face with the kneeling Musallam — aims a handgun at Musallam’s forehead and fires one shot. Musallam crumples to the ground, and the boy stands above his prostrate body and fires three more bullets, shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is great).
In Paris, a French official told the Associated Press that the bearded man and the boy in the video have been identified as French citizens.
The report gave no details, but the official told the AP that investigators were exploring possible family links to a militant, Mohammed Merah, who waged deadly attacks on a Jewish school and French paratroopers in southern France in 2012. Merah was killed in a police raid.
An article says that Musallam failed to follow orders, then tried to reach out to his father in a bid to come home, but that his Islamic State overseers became suspicious and imprisoned him. He later confessed, according to the article.
Musallam’s father dismissed the article as lies and propaganda.
The mother pointed to their small apartment, now crowded with cameras and reporters after news broke of the videotaped killing.
Father of 19-year-old Muhammad Musallam, an Israeli Arab executed by Islamic State in Syria sits in his home on March 11 in East Jerusalem, Israel.
The coalition throws 13 bombardments against Islamic State in Iraq. (12th March 2015)Made by Irene Paradela and Diego Rodríguez
The forces of the international antiterrorist coalition that leads The United States have thrown 13 new air raids against positions of the militia Islamic State in Iraq in the last 24 hours. In a day without bombardments allied in Syria, the coalition has centered in the neighboring country, according to the spread balance sheet this Thursday for the force that coordinates these operations. Five of the assaults vehicles and excavators of the militiamen have reached yihadistas near Kirkuk's locality, whereas other bombardments have taken place near Faluya, against tactical units and a vehicle.
A Balancing Act as Iraq Claims Gains in Tikrit (12th March 2015)Made by Marta Pérez
BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared Thursday that victory in Tikrit was near and “achieved totally by Iraqi hands” as his troops sought to root out Islamic State militants from their last few footholds in the city.Islamic State militants still held a sprawling palace complex built by Saddam Hussein and pockets of the city center. But military officials said they were confident that in a few days they would control the entire area, all without direct assistance from American airstrikes.That would be the most significant defeat for the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, since it swept into northern Iraq last June, carving a swath through the country that put the militants a short drive away from Baghdad and, within weeks, brought American forces back into Iraq after they had seemingly marched out for good in 2011.But that major step for the Iraqi government has come with an emphasis on Shiite militias and Iranian military officials in a leading role. American officials have expressed concerns that the presence of those forces in the Iraqi Sunni heartland could risk the same kind of sectarian alienation that left the country vulnerable to ISIS in the first place.
Two people arrested for their implication in the yihadist attempts of Paris.(13th March 2015)Made by Irene Paradela.
The French Justice has announced this Friday that it is investigating the possible implication of two suspects in the last yihadist attempts of Paris, in which 17 persons died, perpetrated between the 7th and 9th of last January. The District attorney's office only has contributed the names of Loving R., of 33 years, and of Said M., of 25 years.
Both have been detained in order to be interrogated and go under arrest from Monday, in agreement with the information offered by the French Justice. In addition, they stopped another man and a woman, that already they have been put at liberty. The supposed implication of Loving R. owes to itself that it knew in prison to Amedy Coulibaly, which assaulted a Jewish supermarket in the one that killed to four hostages. In addition, the communiqué of the District attorney's office assures that there are more than 600 text messages which have been interchanged between Amar R. and Coulibaly.
With regard to Said M., his DNA was found in a 'taser' found in the Jewish supermarket in which Coulibaly died to hands of the security forces of France. The investigation will try to quarrel if Said M. had something that to see in the preparation of the attempt.
An American military man is hurt in Iraq for the first time in one year.(14th March 2015)Made by Irene Paradela.
An American military man has been hurt on having received a shot in Besmaya's base, being the first incident from the beginning of the mission of training to the Iraqi troops last year, as has reported this Friday the Pentagon. The soldier received the impact of a bullet in the nose when it was trying to locate from a barricade the origin of a point of light observed by a companion from a tower of vigilance, as has reported the spokesperson of the Pentagon, the colonel Steve Warren. This shot provoked a gunfire, in the one that more injured men did not produce to themselves. The soldier was treated in the base and later it continued with his work.
The incident took place in Besmaya's base in the dawn of March 11. Besmaya is one of many emplacements established by the American Army to train to the Iraqi security forces. Warren has coded in a hundred the American military men who are in this place, apart from the additional guards, who are American soldiers.
The spokesperson of the Pentagon has assured that this soldier has been the first member of the American Army in being hurt for a gunfire in an Iraqi base since it began the mission of training last year, which it has as aim help to attack the Islamic State.
The Army kills several supposed militiamen during an attempt of infiltration from Syria.(17th March 2015)Made by Irene Paradela.
The Army of The Lebanon has killed this Monday several supposed militiamen during an attempt of infiltration in the surroundings of Arsal's locality, located near the border with Syria, as has reported the state Lebanese agency of news, NNA. The incident has taken place hours after the Army was carrying out an operation against a group of persons that it tried to cross of illegal form the border in the region of Evenness Baalbek.
According to the information gathered by the Lebanese diary 'An Nahar', the Syrian Army bombarded with simultaneous form the positions of the groups armed in his side of the border. The Lebanese Army carried out at the beginning of March several operations against the positions of the groups Opposite to The Nusra and Islamic State in the frontier zone with Syria, a few actions that were applauded by several foreign countries.
The western services of Intelligence were alert last week of which the terrorist present groups in Syria would be preparing themselves to restart his assaults in Lebanese territory with the spring arrival. Military sources mentioned by the Lebanese diary ' The Daily Star ' have aimed that the clashes with these formations yihadistas is "inevitable", specially in the mountainous zone for which there happens the international road that connects both countries.
Tunisia museum attack (20th March 2015)Made by Marta Pérez
Gunmen in military uniforms killed 19 people on Wednesday in a midday attack on a museum in downtown Tunis, dealing a new blow to the tourist industry that is vital to Tunisia as it struggles to consolidate the only transition to democracy after the Arab Spring revolts.
Tunisian officials had initially said that the attackers took 10 hostages and killed nine people, including seven foreign visitors and two Tunisians. When security forces retook the museum about four hours later, however, the death toll more than doubled, raising questions about how and at what point the hostages had died.
Prime Minister Habib Essid said in a news conference that security forces had killed two gunmen inside the museum but that two or three accomplices might still be at large. He said 17 foreign visitors — including Polish, Italian, Spanish and German tourists — as well as two Tunisians, one of whom was a member of the security forces, had been killed in the attack. At least 22 others were wounded.
Canada will realize air bombardments against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. (24th March 2015)Made by Diego Rodríguez
The Canadian Government has announced this Tuesday that will extend his military board against the terrorist group Islamic State realizing air bombardments against his positions both in Syria and in Iraq.
The motion approved by the Government indicates that Canada foresees to extend his mission of six months one year more until March, 2016. Canada possesses approximately 70 workforce of the special forces operating in the north of Iraq and six Canadian planes of combat are taking part in the missions of the coalition led by The United States against the terrorist group that Abu Bakr leads the Baghdadi.
First Canadian Minister, approving the bombardments.
The Museum of the Bard re-opens his doors after the attack. (25th March 2015)Made by Diego Rodríguez
The National Museum of the Bard has re-opened this Tuesday his doors, almost one week after the attempt perpetrated by a group of armed men linked to the Islamic State, which was paid by more than one score of dead men, the majority foreign tourists.
The Bard has re-opened his doors to 13.30 (local time) with a ceremony organized by the Department of Culture that has been decorated with national flags and placards in those who might be read " Visits Tunis " and entertained with a concert of the Symphonic Orchestra. At this inauguration only there have been present the invited authorities and the neighbors of Tunis who have wanted to observe the ceremony in the middle of strong measures of safety, because the reopening for the general public will take place this weekend.
Bangladesh confirms the liberation of two of his citizens kidnapped in Lybia by the Islamic State. (25th March 2015)Made by Diego Rodríguez
The Department of Exteriors of Bangladesh has confirmed this Tuesday the liberation of two of his kidnapped citizens two weeks ago for the group yihadista Islamic State after an assault against a petroleum Lybian field.
" The citizens from Bangladesh Helal Uddin and Mohamad Anuar Hossain, employees of (the company VAOS) and kidnapped in Lybia have been liberated in the evening of March 24 ", has been indicated by across a communiqué.
Finally, the department has underlined that " the liberation has taken place thanks to the rapid initiatives and the constant efforts of the Department of Exteriors and of the Embassy of Bangladesh in Lybia ".
Lybia suffers the worst crisis from the fall and Muamar Gadafi's execution, on October 20, 2011. With two governments and two parliaments - only a few officials, those of Tobruk - and continuous fights in the East, there's a fear that the country falls down in another civil war.
United Arab Emirates bombs the huthis positions in Yemen.(27th March 2015)Made by Irene Paradela.
Combat planes of United Arab Emirates (UAE) has bombarded this Friday the positions of the huthis in Yemen, on the third day of the regional offensive on the rebels chiíes to defend the Government of Abdo Rabbu Mansur Hadi, as has reported Al Arabiya. Saudi Arabia has assumed the leadership of the ' Operation Definitive Storm ', with that, close to UAE, Bahréin, Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt and Morocco it will try " to repel to the militias huthis, Al Qaeda and the Islamic State in Yemen.
United Arab Emirates it bombards the positions huthis in Yemen The political crisis in Yemen, fruit of the internal disputes not solved with the fall of the Government of Alí Abdulá Salé, in 2011, it worsened last September with the irruption in Saná of the rebels chiíes. The huthis, which historically have claimed major autonomy for the north of Yemen, took Hadi and his Government to resigning in block last January, demonstrating this way the struggle for the control of a country at the edge of the civil war.
Lybia asks for the end of the seizure of weapon to fight to the Islamic State.(28th March 2015)Made by Irene Paradela.
The Lybian Government has asked this Saturday for the raising of the seizure of weapon imposed by the UNO to facilitate so the Army fights to the Islamic State. " To whom they are opposed or delay that one arms the Lybian Army, I say to them that they are giving an opportunity to the terrorists of the Islamic State to bloom in Lybia and to spread beyond ", there has argued the president of the Lybian Parliament, Aqila Salé. " The neighboring countries will be first affected ", has been added by it. Salé has realized these declarations from Sharm the Sheij, Egypt, where there is celebrated a summit of the Arabic League in that it hopes that there is approved a military Arabic force capable of confronting the threats to the regional safety.
Arrested five Dutches in Turkey for trying to travel to Syria.(29th March 2015)Made by Irene Paradela.
The Turkish security forces have detained five Dutch citizens who had tried to cross illegally the border with Syria to join allegedly the autoproclaimed Islamic State, as the Turkish Army has revealed this Sunday across a communiqué. The Turkish authorities, nevertheless, could not have confirmed the motive for which five arrested had travelled to Turkey to cross the border with Syria.
Regardless, they already count with the thousands of foreigners who have joined the Islamic State, the terrorist organization, which controls wide territories in Syria and Iraq. Turkey has faced in the last months critiques for possible lacks at the moment of controlling his borders with Syria and Iraq. Nevertheless, Ankara has answered that the European countries are those that first should have avoided the potentials yihadists going out of his countries.
Two policemen hurt by strangers' shots in Riyadh. (30th March 2015)Made by Irene Paradela.
Two Saudi policemen have been hurt for the strangers' shots while they realized a patrol in car for Riyadh, the capital of the kingdom, at the last moment of Sunday, as has reported this Monday the official agency SPA, which he mentions to a police spokesperson.
The Police are investigating the gunfire, which has taken place from another vehicle, according to the spokesperson. The injured men are deposited in a hospital and are stable, it has added. The Saudi security forces have been an object in the past of assaults on the part of militiamen suníes as Al Qaeda and supporters of Islamic State. Also they have been an object of assaults for some radical members of the minority chií of the country in Qatif's zone, in the Oriental Province.
The Saudi authorities informed on Thursday that the security forces are in alert raised due to the campaign of bombardments led by Riyadh against the rebels huthis in neighboring Yemen.
The islamist militias resume the combats in Yarmuk (6th April 2015)Made by Irene Paradela.
The clashes between the militiamen of Aknaf Bayt to the Maqdis, related to Hamás, and the Islamic State have been resumed this Monday in Yarmuk's Palestinian accession, located in the south of Damascus, which suffers the most difficult moments from the beginning of the civil war in Syria. The Syrian Observatory for the Human rights has reported that the combats have taken again this Monday with the launch of missiles land - land and approximately 20 barrels bomb, besides snipers.
" Still there is no information about the victims ", the Observatory has said, remembering that in these days of continuous clashes at least 33 persons have died. The Islamic State managed to enter last Wednesday Yarmuk with the militiamen's help of Opposite to The Nusra - Al Qaeda's subsidiary Syria - that they decided to leave this terrorist organization and to add to the rows of the Daesh.
Until now Yarmuk was controlled by an amalgam of armed groups opponents to the Syrian regime, which they have used the Palestinian refugees as human shields to avoid that the forces 'assadistas' were throwing an offensive.
Iraq re-edits his alliance with the Kurds to "liberate" Nínive. (6th April 2015)Made by Irene Paradela.
The prime minister of Iraq, Haider to the Abadi, has announced this Monday a new alliance with the Government of the Iraqi Kurdistan "to "liberate" Nínive's province, specially the city of Mosul, of the terrorist group Islamic State. " Our visit to Erbil is to coordinate a joint plan to liberate the people of Nínive ", has said Al Abadi in the press conference that has offered together with the president of the autonomous region of the Kurdistan, Masud Barzani.
Al Abadi has underlined the importance of " designing the strategy " to recover Nínive, revealing that already have started the discussions on " military and economic coordination, without previous conditions ", as reports Rudaw. The chief of Government has made clear that Nínive's reconquest takes Mosul as a priority aim, one of the most important cities of Iraq, revealing that there is a precise calendar for his capture, though it has refused to detail it not to finish with " the surprise element ".
On the forces that will take part in the offensive on Nínive, Al Abadi has limited himself to saying that " his inhabitants will have a key paper in the liberation ". For your part, Barzani, has slid that there will be participation peshmerga (Kurdish soldiers), though his exact paper it will have to determine a 'ad hoc' committee.
More than 30 dead men for a prudent double of Islamic State in the north of Syria. (8th April 2015)Made by Diego Rodríguez.
At least 31 persons have died for the explosion of two car bombs attributed to Islamic State in a locality near to Alepo, in the north of Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for the Human rights (OSDH).
The bombs have exploded in the locality of Tide: in the surrounding areas of the barracks of a group rival and in another zone where it produces this organization. Between the deceased there appears a " local emir " of Opposite to The Nusra, Al Qaeda's subsidiary, as well as other two leaders of islamist facial features, according to the OSDH.
The Frente of The Nusra has recognized across Internet the death of one of his leaders for the explosion of a car bomb of Islamic State. The group yihadista has spread the image of a supposed corpse covered with a blanket.
Marea has turned into a scene of battle between forces rivals, though Islamic State has stopped his offensive. The roads that pass on Alepo's north part constitute a line of key supply for the present rebels in this city, which control is distributed between the insurgents and the regime.
USA accuses a North American citizen of trying to join Islamic State. (9th April 2015)Made by Diego Rodríguez.
The American citizen Joshua Ray Van Haften has been a defendant for the North American authorities to want to join the rows of the terrorist group Islamic State, as has reported the Department of American Justice. They go Haften, of Wisconsin, tried to travel to Iraq or Syria to join the terrorist organization. The 34-year-old man, has to appear in Madison's court throughout Thursday, after they were stopping it on eve in the International Airport of Chicago, when it was coming from one fly from Turkey.
The District attorneys accuse him of leaving the country and to go to Turkey on August 24, 2014, in that it is an intermediate stop for many soldiers who want to join the group yihadista due to his border with Syria. If he is declared a culprit, it might face a maximum of fifteen years of prison.
Once there, the suspect exchanged Facebook's messages with friends and supposed sympathizers with the autoproclaimed Islamic State, according to the district attorneys. In one of the messages of the social network, his companion of room was asking him that when it would come back home, answered to what They Go Haften that " Turkey is divided on to the decisión of attacking Syria or not, and if finally it is decided, I will attack them ". According to the District attorney's office, the suspect added that " it was going to cross Syria, but finally I did not do it. I wait to make it prompt, am tired of this life ".
Sweden will send troops to Iraq to support the fight against Islamic State. (6th April 2015)Made by Diego Rodríguez.
The Government of Sweden has announced this Thursday the next sending of a military quota to Iraq to endorse the operations against the terrorist organization Islamic State. Stockholm answers this way to a request of Baghdad.
Sweden will send troops to Iraq to support the fight against Islamic State The secretaries of Exteriors and Defense, Margot Wallstrom and and Peter Hultqvist, respectively, they have signed a joint article in 'Dagens Nyheter' in which they consider the " cooperation against the terrorism " a tool "key" to defeat the yihadistas. In altars of the " common efforts ", the Swedish Government has agreed on the sending of 35 military men who will add to the deployment of international forces in the north of Iraq. This workforce will contribute to the formation of the Iraqi forces to improve his antiterrorist capacities. Wallstrom and Hultqvist already have advanced that, if the situation of the Arabic country deteriorates, Sweden is ready to extend his quota up to 120 military men.
The French chain TV5 Peels suffers an assault " without precedents " of 'hackers' from ISIS. (9th April 2015)Made by Diego Rodriguez.
The French television channel TV5 Peel he says to have suffered an assault " without precedents " on the part of 'hackers' who assure to belong to the Islamic State (EI). The blockade carried out by the pirates IT has concerned the television channel, the web pages and the accounts of the French chain in the social networks.
This way it has been confirmed by the general manager of TV5Monde, Helene Zemmour, who speaks about an assault " without previous and large-scale ". The chain has recovered the control on the majority of his platforms two hours after the assault was beginning.
The photographies that were appearing in the profiles of the chain in the social networks they were replaced with images of an islamist soldier masked, accompanied of a message in which it was possible to read: " The 'Cybercaliphate' continues his 'ciberyihad' against the enemies of the Islamic State ". The 'hackers' also have published documents in which there are threatened French soldiers who take part in operations against the terrorist group, as well as to his relatives, as it informs the BBC. France forms a part of the coalition led by The United States that carries out air raids against positions yihadistas in Iraq and Syria.
The arrested for yihadism had the intention of committing an outrage in Catalonia. (9th April 2015)Made by Diego Rodríguez.
Eleven arrested as supposed yihadists this Wednesday in several Catalonian localities had the "will" to commit an outrage in Catalonia, where they were forming a part of an organized cell that was catching young women, it was toughening them and he them was sending to Syria and Iraq to fight close to the Islamic State. The arrested are ten men - one minor - and a woman, of between 17 and 45 years and nationalities Spanish woman, Moroccan and Paraguayan, and five of them are " converted that had assumed the Islamic faith in his process of radicalization ", as has made clear the minister of Interior, Ramon Espadaler, in press conference. " Much must make us think over that five are converted - Spanish four and a Paraguayan - and is something that demonstrates the great capacity of radicalization of the cell ", has alerted Espadaler, which has affirmed that the group has remained dismantled with the detentions, which have begun at four o'clock in the morning. In the frame of the operation, which is low secret of summary, seven records have been realized in Terrassa, four in Sabadell, two in Barcelona - one in Sants's district-, two in Valls (Tarragona) and one in Sant Quirze of the Vallès: " The intention of committing an outrage in Catalonia already had remained proved before the actions of this dawn ", it has aimed Espadaler.
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‘ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror' (10th April 2015)Made by Marta Pérez and Alicia Ruiz
A masked militant with a drawn knife, preparing to slaughter a helpless captive: This is how the group that was to become the Islamic State, more commonly known as ISIS, grabbed the world’s attention in 2004. The Islamic State has renamed and reinvented itself many times since then, but it still makes such scenes a staple of its propaganda.
“One who previously engaged in jihad knows that it is naught but violence, crudeness, terrorism, deterrence and massacring,” Abu Bakr Naji wrote in “The Management of Savagery,” the group’s key theoretical work. Other forces in the Middle East, like Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, can be just as brutal. But they try to conceal their brutality, while the Islamic State revels in its. Just as unusually, the Islamic State and its predecessors always seem to be seeking out new enemies. It bombed Iraq’s Shia majority while fighting an American occupation in 2004, and it killed Americans in 2014 to draw the United States into a war the Islamic State was already waging onmany fronts.Making so many enemies, and giving them so much motivation to fight, might seem self-defeating. But depressingly, its extremism appears to work: The Islamic State has eclipsed dozens of rival insurgent groups that at first glance look to be more deeply rooted in their societies; routed armies many times its size; and taken on every power in the region, from the United States to Iran to Al Qaeda, holding its own against all of them. Of these three new books on the Islamic State, only one quotes Yeats’s “The Second Coming,” but the others must have been tempted. Why must the “worst” — the most wantonly cruel — elicit the most passionate intensity?
These books each highlight different aspects of the group’s success. “ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror,” by Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan, the most comprehensive of the three, traces the group’s evolution and sheds particular light on how it both cows and co-opts the populations in the areas it controls. “ISIS: The State of Terror,” by Jessica Stern and J. M. Berger, is heavily focused on its online presence. Patrick Cockburn’s “The Rise of Islamic State” is a more argumentative work, centered on how errors made by ISIS’ foes paved its way.
Taken together, the books show that the Islamic State’s strategy can be remarkably sophisticated. It portrays itself as eager to rush in at the slightest sign of unbelief in order to cut throats, but in fact it has a more subtle and long-term design. The phrase “management of savagery,” which could be read as how to exploit terror, actually refers to something else: how to break down “apostate” regimes so that Muslim regions fall into a state of “savagery,” and then build a new order on top. The cruelty and the willingness to make enemies are necessary elements in both the breaking down and the building up, but they are only part of the equation.
Stern, a lecturer on terrorism at Harvard, and Berger, a nonresident fellow with the Brookings Institution, dissect the Islamic State’s messaging in some detail, showing how the cruelty is aimed at recruiting a very specific demographic, “angry, maladjusted young men” attracted to a total war against unbelief. The Islamic State also chooses its foes and battles so that it appears to be fulfilling Islamic End Times prophecies. Only a tiny percentage of the world’s Muslims may be receptive to such a message, but the Islamic State’s social media tactics reach so large an audience that the payoff is huge: Nearly 20,000 foreign volunteers have come to join jihadist groups in Iraq and Syria, according to one study cited by Stern and Berger.
The authors contrast the Islamic State’s messaging with Al Qaeda’s, and show why ISIS has ultimately been more successful. Al Qaeda may look down on its rival’s crudity, but ultimately, Stern and Berger argue, its worldview is more naïve and “nihilistic.” They locate Al Qaeda in the (mostly leftist) tradition of vanguard revolutionary movements that hope to awaken the masses via dramatic acts, but then take for granted that the masses will instinctively know what to do next. The Islamic State, rather than expecting radicalized Muslims to engage in spontaneous acts of resistance throughout the world, wants them where it can guide them closely: in its newly proclaimed caliphate. It intersperses beheading footage with images of pothole repair, clinics and apparently grateful civilians. Al Qaeda offers its followers martyrdom. Its caliphate won’t come into existence for generations. ISIS offers them a place in its nascent utopia today.
Weiss, a columnist for Foreign Policy, and Hassan, an analyst at the Delma Institute, a research center in Abu Dhabi, provide a detailed explanation of how the Islamic State “manages savagery” on the ground. They trace the group’s full history — how the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi made his way, from Afghanistan and Iran, to Iraq; how his “Monotheism and Holy War” movement exploited the security vacuum created by the American invasion to build his organization; how it established its mystique by plunging into key battles and federating with Al Qaeda; how it sparked a sectarian war with the Shia; how it antagonized powerful Sunni tribes and was brought to near extinction by the American-backed Sahwa (“Awakening”) movement; how it surged forward as Iran-backed Shia leaders who considered the Sahwa a threat persecuted Sunnis until they rebelled.
This account of the Islamic State in Iraq is a valuable summation, but it really shines when it reaches the group’s entry into Syria starting in 2011. Weiss and Hassan use their own interviews with members to draw out the range of motivations for why Syrians join such an extreme organization. Scholars may scoff at the group’s interpretation of Islam, but some Syrians appear to have been genuinely persuaded by the Islamic State’s theological arguments. Others have been disenchanted with less disciplined rebel movements, or decided that only ISIS could protect Syrian Sunnis from Shia or Kurdish aggression.
“ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror” shows how the Islamic State, despite its “barbarians at the gate” self-image, is quite capable of picking its battles. Weiss and Hassan argue that tacit understandings with the Assad regime in particular helped the group expand. During the American occupation of Iraq, Damascus let militants transit through its territory to join the battle, which both kept the jihadists busy and dampened American enthusiasm for regional regime change. After the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, Weiss and Hassan argue, Assad — who claimed from the beginning that the rebels were predominantly extremists — rallied non-Sunnis to his regime and reduced Western enthusiasm for his overthrow. Weiss and Hassan are not the first to make this observation, but they effectively lay out the evidence, including a mass amnesty for imprisoned militants and the Assad air force’s reluctance to hit ISIS targets.
Weiss and Hassan also show that the Islamic State learned from the backlash against it by tribes in Iraq. The group’s hostility to an economy based on patronage brought it into conflict with those tribes, so the Syrian branch now allows tribes to keep concessions in smuggling and other economic activity. But today’s Islamic State is just as heavy-handed as its earlier incarnation in its rigid enforcement of Shariah law, and its insistence on being the sole arbiter of disputes between tribes. This strategy might have led to resentment, but as things turned out, tribes valued its ability to keep order and curb banditry. Here, the Islamic State’s bloodthirstiness has proved an asset: The group’s enthusiasm for capital punishment extends to its own members if they are accused of corruption, allowing it to impose more discipline on its members than on less radical rebels. Its huge foreign contingent is also valuable, since those individuals can serve as impartial moderators and, if needed, be quickly deployed for shows of force.
Weiss and Hassan expect readers to know the general outline of the events they cover. Their book jumps from point to point and sometimes hangs sweeping assessments on a single analyst; it could use a lot more footnotes for its debatable assertions. But as the most serious book-length study of the Islamic State to be published so far, it may serve as the basis for a more definitive account of the group in the future.
Patrick Cockburn’s work is the most accessible but least detailed of the three. His account focuses on the miscalculations of the Islamic State’s foes. The United States is blamed not only for its original sin of having invaded Iraq but also for mishandling the Syria war. Washington assumed that Assad would go down to defeat and had no Plan B when he did not, nor did it grasp that a war in Syria would in time destabilize Iraq. Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, simultaneously backed the Sunnis into a corner while feeding a culture of corruption that left his military unable to handle the ensuing rebellion. Saudi Arabia funneled money to Syrian jihadis at the same time that its preachers railed against the Shia, ensuring a sectarian nightmare. Assad, for his part, overlooked the seeds of Syria’s uprising, then overestimated his security forces’ ability to keep it in check through brute coercion.
Cockburn, an experienced Mideast journalist, relies heavily on his own reporting. He offers revealing anecdotes on the decrepit state of the Iraqi Army, which collapsed before the Islamic State’s Mosul offensive, and some glimpses of the sluggish and brutal military stalemate in Syria. But his book does little to explain why the Islamic State, rather than its Sunni rivals, managed to seize the opportunities offered by its foes. Cockburn describes a continuing tragedy in which hubris and optimism destroyed a seemingly promising revolution, but few insights into the inner workings of the extremists who came out on top.
Were post-hussein Iraq and Assad’s Syria doomed to sink into the “savagery” that the Islamic State was poised to exploit? And is there any way out? Cockburn is unremittingly pessimistic, suggesting that the two countries may be finished as unified states. Weiss and Hassan, by stressing the role played by the Assad regime in the Islamic State’s rise, seem anxious to absolve Syria’s revolution of having led inexorably to extremism. But they are gloomy about the future: They do not see American bombing as having seriously shaken ISIS’ hold. Meanwhile, the group has taken steps to forestall a new Sahwa. Stern and Berger, with their emphasis on information technology, imply that the Islamic State is as much a consequence of its time as of its place: It cornered a niche market with a message of ultraviolence. But the authors hold out the hope that if the Islamic State is contained, it may rot under the burden of its inflated expectations.
The Islamic State’s defeat by Kurdish fighters and American air power at Kobane, and Baghdad’s assault on Tikrit, suggest that its days of easy victories may be coming to an end. If it is deprived of those, its mystique and ability to attract foreign recruits may wane. But at the same time, the group is metastasizing, with local groups in Egypt, Libya and most recently Nigeria pledging allegiance. Insofar as it can find new savagery to manage, the Islamic State may be with us for a long time.
Islamic State Seizes Palestinian Refugee Camp in Syria (10th April 2015)Made by Marta Pérez and Alicia Ruiz
Islamic State militants have seized most of a sprawling Palestinia refugee district in the southern part of the Syrian capital, Damascus, an area that has been under siege and bombardment for nearly two years already, according to Palestinian and United Nations officials and residents. The officials called for quick action by international organizations, the Syrian government and all armed groups to head off an unfolding catastrophe. Reports of killings and even beheadings were beginning to circulate on Saturday, worsening what is already a longstanding humanitarian nightmare for the 18,000 residents of the Yarmouk refugee camp. By seizing much of the camp, the Islamic State terrorist group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, made its greatest inroads yet into Damascus, a significant step for a group that rose largely in the northern and eastern provinces of Syria, far from the capital. Yet at the same time, the move suggests that as the Islamic State loses ground in Iraq and northeastern Syria, the most daring response it could muster on the ground was to attack one of the most vulnerable populations in Syria Most of all, the attack was a perverse answer to the question of how life in Yarmouk could get worse. Many residents’ very presence there is a scar from a previous war; they are descended from Palestinians who fled or were driven from their homes in the 1948 war over Israel’s founding. More recently, they have been blockaded and bombarded by the Syrian goverment for nearly two years, and ruled internally by a tangled web of armed groups, including Syrian insurgents and Palestinian factions, said by residents to siphon scarce food to their own fighters and families. While Palestinian leaders had initially sought to maintain neutrality in Syria’s war, in reality, Palestinian refugees living in Syria — who had more rights there than in other countries and therefore had a greater stake in society — have strong sympathies on both sides of the conflict. Some supported President Bashar al-Assad, seeing him as a champion of the Palestinian cause, while others became leaders in the initial political uprising against him. Hamas, the powerful Palestinian Sunni militant group, broke with Mr. Assad over what it saw as his repression of an uprising led by fellow Sunni Muslims, but has lately sought a measure of reconciliation. Nevertheless, Palestinians are caught in the middle, and most of the camp’s 160,000 prewar residents, once the world’s largest concentration of Palestinian refugees outside the West Bank and Gaza, have been scattered in what some are calling a second Nakba, or catastrophe, the Palestinians’ name for the events of 1948. “For over 700 days, the camp has been the victim of a draconian siege, which has resulted in the death by starvation of at least 200 Palestinians,” Saeb Erekat, the longtime Palestinian peace negotiator with Israel, said in a statement issued Saturday that called on all parties to provide civilians with safe passage out of the “death tra
He said the humanitarian disaster underscored the vulnerability of Palestinian refugees and their need for a “right of return” to reclaim homes in what is now Israel, one of the thorniest issues in world affairs. But for the time being, he added, “Yarmouk shall remain a testament to the collective human failure of protecting civilians in times of war.” The fighting in Yarmouk was also a testament to the complexity of the Syrian conflict, where various insurgent groups are battling both the government and the Islamic State amid shifting and contradictory alliances. At first, the latest chapter appeared to have begun with low-level disputes between ISIS militants in the neighboring suburb of Hajar al-Aswad and members of a Hamas-affiliated militia in the camp, Aknaf Bayt al-Maqdis. But as the Hamas-linked fighters clashed with ISIS and tried to keep it from establishing a foothold in the camp, members of the Nusra Front, a Qaeda affiliate that has a major presence there, did not help, several residents said. Some said that despite its rivalry with the Islamic State elsewhere, the Nusra Front actively prevented other insurgent groups from sending reinforcements from nearby suburbs, and that many of its members defected to ISIS. Anwar Raja, a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, a pro-Assad group, said Nusra and the Islamic State were “all the same” and the latest fighting showed that recent talks to reach a settlement for the camp were “nonsense and promotion for terrorism.” In spite of the difficulties they face, Yarmouk residents have continued to produce films and music about their and Syria’s plight, making the camp a symbol of resilience as well as suffering. But adding an ISIS occupation onto everything else, one Palestinian resident of Damascus said, “would be catastrophic.”
. Posible trouble in Catalonia, has been stoped (10/04/2015 15:45) by Alicia Ruiz The 11 yihadists have declared, and it has been found out that they pretended to kidnap a person in Catalonia. What they wanted to do was to film the person while they were cutting the victim's head. This way, they could publish it on the internet, using the video, as a way of intimidating people, like Jhon the Yihadist did previously.
The number of Spanish Yihadist people continue increasing. (10th April 2015)Made byAlicia Ruiz.
Around 50.000 of Spanish people has become a yihadist, each time, more people become a yihadist. The first case was the one of an asturian man, called Jesus Galá, and other example could be Auraki.
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What is the Islamic State? What Origins child SUS? And your intentions? The simplicity of these questions is misleading. Few Western leaders seem to know the answers. "Do not even understand the concept," admitted the General Michael K. Nagata, head of US Special Operations in the Middle East, in comments Confidential Posts by The New York Times in December. In the last year, Barack Obama has said the Islamic State "is un-Islamic" and, at other times, which is a subsidiary of Al Qaeda, a statement that reflected the confusion and important, perhaps, they have led CoMeter Strategic mistakes.
The Islamic State (EI) took the city of Mosul (Iraq) in June 2014 and UN controls territory managers largest UK. Abubaker al Baghdadi is the leader since 2010, but do Recent Most image, until last summer, when a blurry photograph of the Age who was imprisoned at Camp Bucca, during the US occupation of Iraq. When the July 5, 2014 I went up to the pulpit of the Great Mosque of Al Nuri, in Mosul, proclaim para Prime caliph in generations, Paso blurred the High Resolution Image and guerrilla in search and seizure of a head supreme of all Muslims. Since then he has not stopped the flow of jihadists from around the world to the territory controlled by the Islamic State.
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Our ignorance of this movement is partly understandable: a hermit kingdom and few of those who have gone there have become. Al-Baghdadi has spoken before the cameras only once. But his words, like all other propaganda videos and encyclicals of the Islamic State, are on the Net, and followers of the caliphate have made enormous efforts to make your project known: reject peace principle; hunger for genocide; his religious vision is totally incompatible with certain types of changes that might even guarantee their survival, and considers himself a primarily player-and herald imminent end of the world.The Islamic State, also called Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (Daesh in Arabic, English ISIS), is guided by a stream of Islam with a peculiar conception of the way to the Day of Judgment. This belief determines its strategy and can help the West to know your enemy and predict their behavior. His rise to power, rather than look to win the Muslim Brotherhood Egypt-whom the Islamic State considered apostates, it resembles the materialization of a dystopian alternate reality and, like David Koresh or Jim Jones [leaders of two of the best known of the world] suicide sects have survived to dominate not just a few hundred adherents, but eight million people.
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In a recently released video that showed the killing of 21 Christians in Libya, all but one of them Egyptian, the Islamic State issued an ominous warning: "Today we are south of Rome," one masked militant said. "We will conquer Rome with Allah's permission."
Exactly what "Rome" means to the Islamic State is unclear -- some experts say it may actually be a reference to the United States or Turkey, or even the West in general. But Italy is worried. Libya is just a short boat ride across the Mediterranean. Thousands of refugees already make this journey to Italian shores every year.
Islamic State militants have reportedly burnt 45 people alive near the town Al-Baghdadi in western Iraq. News of the atrocities follows the recent beheading of 21 Christians in Libya and the brutal burning to death of a Jordanian pilot.
According to local police chief Colonel Qasim al-Obeidi, cited by the BBC, some of the executed people may be from Iraqi security forces, but no precise data was given. Al-Obeidi also reportedly said the town was under attack, particularly its security forces and official buildings, and asked the Iraqi government and international community for help.
The current crime is the second case of burning people to death this year. In the beginning of February, the insurgents released a video showing the execution of Jordanian pilot Moath al-Kasasbeh. Al-Kasasbeh was captured by militants in late December, when they downed his jet over Syria as it participated in US-led airstrikes against the militant group. According to the video, he was burnt alive in a cage.
The Islamic State has published at the last moment of this Saturday a newly video in which a spokesperson informs about the execution to 21 Kurdish soldiers to those who before had been forced to parade in cages through the streets of Kirkuk's Iraqi locality. The video includes a series of interviews to the , that a person realizes with a microphone in hand with a logo of the Islamic State. The video, which production CNN describes like " consisting of relation to other pieces of executions of Islamic State ", is entitled " Curing the heart of the believers " and it is written in Kurd, with subtitles in Arab.
A British soldier in service that had joined the peshmerga Kurdish forces in the fight against the terrorist group of the Islamic State has been found and repatriated of return to United Kingdom, as the Defense Secretary, Michael Fallon, has announced this Monday in London. The man, as British means had informed last week, said to his friends and family that he was considering to stay one year in Middle East, as he was the first soldier in service in joining the Kurdish forces. A small number of former military men also have done it.
" The soldier given for missing last week has been located and returned to his unit ", has made clear Fallon to the Parliament, declining to do more comments on the details of the case.
Fallon has said that in total approximately 600 British military men are involved in the fight against Islamic State, included more than 140 in Iraq. United Kingdom has been taking part in the air bombardments against the terrorist group in Iraq and is training to the Iraqi forces and peshmerga on the area.
Two explosive devices have exploted in front of the Iranian embassy in Libya, leaving "no mortal victims and no significant damages", according to what police has said. The Statal Iranian Agency has specified that, fortunately, their presence in Libya is temporally closed, and so they currently don´t have official representation in the libian capital. The Iranian minister has condemned this attack, and the Islamic State (ISIS) has taken responsability for it.
"A first bomb has exploted in the embassy´s door, and then a second one has been thrown to its inside", explains Isam al Nas, the representative of the national forces. Fortunately, only the door and the windows of the near embassy of Ukraine have suffered some type of damage.
Spanish police has arrested four people linked to a sophisticated social media campaign that recruited women to join terrorist groups like Islamic state (Isis) on Tuesday, Spain’s interior ministery has said. Authorities have said that the two in Melilla, who managed several internet platforms that spread propaganda for terrorist groups such as ISIS, “were dedicated to the recruitment of women, who after a process of indoctrination, would end up integrated into the terrorist group”.
The two arrested in Melilla also organised meetings at homes, showing potential recruits videos and materials from Isis in an effort to persuade them to travel to Iraq and Syria to join the conflict. They were successful in convincing a number of young people, said the ministry, who had begun making travel preparations. In Catalonia, those arrested included a man who had edited and distributed videos to recruit potential jihadis, as well as a man who had identified himself in a CNN report as a supporter of ISIS living in a western society.
At least 28 persons have died in a chain of seven explosions registered in the capital of Iraq, Baghdad, and in it's surroundings, as medical and police sources have reported. In Jisr Diyala's district, placed in the south-east of the city, fifteen people have died at least for two explosions, one of them provoked by a car bomb. Little before, other five explosions have taken place in peripheral neighborhoods of the north and the south of the Iraqi capital.
For the present time, there has no been a recovery of the authorship of the assaults, which have come in a moment in which the Iraqi security forces are fighting against the militiamen of the Islamic State to take the zones that they control in the north and the west of the country.
In Anbar's province, in the west of Iraq, Iraqi troops endorsed by military men and tribal soldiers have tried to expel the Islamic State from Al-Baghdadi, or shores of the river Euphrates. This locality is only three kilometres from the east of Ain's air base to Roast, where the United States' government train Iraqi military men who will fight against Islamic State.
Islamic State released 19 Assyrian Christian captives in Syria on Sunday after processing them through a sharia court, a monitoring group which tracks the conflict said.
More than 200 Assyrians remain in Islamic State hands, said the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, captives from an Islamic State advance last month that overran more than a dozen villages inhabited by the ancient Christian minority near Hasaka, a northeastern city mainly held by the Kurds.
Islamic State has not claimed any of the abductions. The Observatory tracks the conflict using a network of sources on all sides of the civil war which spiraled as security forces used violence to suppress protests against President Bashar al-Assad's rule in 2011.
It said 17 men and two women were released.
Islamic State has killed members of religious minorities and Sunni Muslims who do not swear allegiance to its self-declared "caliphate". The group last month released a video showing its members beheading 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya.
Thousands of Iraqi soldiers and Shiite militiamen sought to seal off Islamic State fighters in Tikrit and nearby towns on Tuesday, the second day of Iraq’s biggest offensive yet against a stronghold of the radical Sunni Islamist militants.
Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani, who has helped coordinate Baghdad’s counter-attacks against Islamic State since it seized much of northern Iraq in June, was overseeing at least part of the operation, witnesses said.
Iraqi military officials said security forces backed by the Shiite militia known as Hashid Shaabi (Popular Mobilization) units were advancing gradually, their progress slowed by roadside bombs and snipers. They have alredy entered Tikrit, which officials describe as the major centre of the Islamic State fighters.
The offensive is the biggest military operation in the Salahuddin region north of Baghdad since last summer, when Islamic State fighters killed hundreds of Iraqi soldiers who had abandoned their military base at Camp Speicher outside Tikrit.
To the west of Mosul, Islamic State fighters attacked Kurdish forces in the town of Sinjar on Monday, a senior peshmerga source said. Nine peshmerga and 45 militants were killed in the fighting, which began with a suicide car bomb in the Nasr quarter of the town.
Islamic State “wants to show people they can still attack and inflict losses on the peshmerga,” the source said. Kurdish forces currently control around 30 percent of the town of Sinjar, as well as the hills to the north and the mountain overlooking it.
Jhon the yihadist has been identify as a twenty years old man from London ,that leaved in the east part of london and studied technolochy in the Westminster university. He was borned in Kuwait, and he has decapiteted several people in the yihadist videos.
His identidy has been investigated using diferent techniques,such us identifying his voice from the videos and interviewing diferent survival hostages.After the realease of the video of the beheading of an American journalist ,James Foley,last summer, the FBI sayed that they could have identifyed the famous executioner.Although his identity has been keep secretly,Jhon appear in four more videos murdering more western hostages.
Emwazi,according to sources cited by the Post,arrived to Syria in 2012.After graduating from college , he trvelled to Tanzania with the intention of making a safari.Upon landing in Dar es Salaam,in May 2009 ,they were arrested by the police and eventually deported.Emwazi tghen travelled to Amsterdam .There, according to emails to the Washingtong Post ,the British intelligence service MI5 accused of attempting to travel to Somalia to join the Islamist war that operated in the south.Emwatzi denied the accusation ,repñying thar was the MI5 that tried to recruit him.In autumn 2009 he returned to Britain.Then he moved to Kuwait ,where he worked in a computer company , and returned at least twice the UK ,one to fix the papers to marry a Kuwaiti in 2010.The British anti-terrorist police came to arrest him,preventing him to Kuwait the next day .He was according to the testimonies of anonimous friends collected by the USE diary,ansious to escape London.The same frieds remember how polite,elegant and religious he was.
We belive that he came to Siria in 2012..Although we dont know how he did it.There he contacted with his familie and we a friend,but we dont really know what he told them about his activity there.
A exrehén has recounted how Emwazi in 2013 was part of a team, including two Britons , to monitor prisoners in premises of Idlib .
Emwazi seamed to be the lider of the team.At the begining of 2014 the hostages wre translated to Rgga,which is the center of operartions of the islamic estate in Siria.There,they continue recieving visits of Emwazi ,who seamed to have assumed most inportant task in the administration.
The British govermet havent confirmed yet taht Emwazi is Jhonn the yihadist.
Universal justice against the islamic state (06/03/2015) by Alicia Ruiz
The islamic state has destroyed ancient art pieces and documents from the past,commiting barbareties and lots of murderings because of their religion.But it is not the first time that they have done it.With each demolation of those pieces,they are commeting serious crimes,and justice can also be apploid in this cases.
It consists of an agreement between 126 countries ,also Spain and Irak,approved in 1954, says: that it doesnt matter your nationality, if you have destroyed or commited a crime agaist these historical monuments and documents, you must be punnished because of your acctions.
A group of yihadists with big hammers has destroyed the pieces of the Mosul museum, spreading a video in which they show them committing this attrocities. Many people have interpreted this as an incitation to violence. Although a big ammount of ancient books and monuments have been destroyed or burned,some art pieces have been transported to Siria, maybe with the intention of selling them.
Militiamen from the Islamic State have destroyed Hatra's ancient city, placed in the south of Mosul (Nínive's province), according to official sources. The city, which dates back to 200 B.C., was the capital of the former Parto Empire.
"Militiamen from the Islamic State have begun to destroy with spades the historical city of Fed Hatra, near Mosul. It is a historical place from which many famous kings had governed", has made clear a person in charge of the Democratic Party of the Kurdistan for Mosul, Saeed Mamuzini, in declarations to the agency of news Kurdish Rudaw.
According to Mamuzini, "The city of Hatra is very big and it sheltered multitude of antiquities in his interior". "The Islamic State has taken the ancient coins of gold and silver", he has made clear. Hatra is located in plenary desert, approximately 110 kilometres from Mosul, the second most populated city in Iraq and under control of the yihadistas from the last June.
The Parto Empire was the principal rival of the Roman Empire for the hegemony in the Middle East in the first years of our age.
The Spanish Government has condemned this Friday the destruction of the ruins of the asirian city of Nimrud, in the north of Iraq, perpetrated by the terrorist group of the Islamic State, which it has been qualified of acts of barbarism". According to the State Department of Foreign Policy and Cooperation, Islamic State "tries to uselessly annihilate history". In this respect, "he trusts that the authors of these crimes against the Heritage of the Humanity will answer for them before the Justice". The Spanish Government has remembered that it supports Iraq "in his effort for recovering the peace and the national concord". Finally, he has assured that Madrid endorses Baghdad "in the combat against Islamic State in the frame of the international coalition formed by request of the inclusive Government of Iraq".
Islamic State has given one more step in his desire to show to the world his criminal actions and for it it has created a producers' network of television with the aim to cover quite easily his territory and to increase this way the diffusion of his audio-visual messages, principally in the social networks. A television for every province, each one with his own logo, reporters, microphones with the flag of the group and own autonomy, but following all of them the same boss that there mark both big producers of images of the group: Al Hayat and Al Furqan, more powerful in average and capable of elaborating contents of great cinematographic quality.
It is like a network of local televisions distributed by all the provinces ('wilayas') which belong to the autoproclaimed caliphate of Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi.
These new audio-visual producers do not limit themselves only to Syria and Iraq, they have also started elaborating contents in other places in which faithful movements have arisen to the Islamic State such as Lybia.
The latest video posted by the Islamic State carries a chilling twist: It appears to show a young boy in camouflage fatigues taking aim with a handgun and pumping fatal shots into a man the extremist group called “an Israeli spy.” In East Jerusalem, however, the parents of the Arab Israeli victim described him as a misguided teen who was duped into joining the Islamic State and killed because he wanted to come home.
“They took my son, they tricked him. They offered him money, a house and a bride, and he told us he had been lied to and that he was sorry for the disgrace he brought upon our house,” said Hind Musallam, mother of Mohammad Said Ismail Musallam, 19.
Family members said they had not watched the video, released late Tuesday, but had seen still images. They confirmed that the man shot was Musallam. The video shows a man identified as Musallam sitting in a room in an orange jumpsuit and describing how the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad had recruited him.
The boy steps forward, — standing face-to-face with the kneeling Musallam — aims a handgun at Musallam’s forehead and fires one shot. Musallam crumples to the ground, and the boy stands above his prostrate body and fires three more bullets, shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is great).
In Paris, a French official told the Associated Press that the bearded man and the boy in the video have been identified as French citizens.
The report gave no details, but the official told the AP that investigators were exploring possible family links to a militant, Mohammed Merah, who waged deadly attacks on a Jewish school and French paratroopers in southern France in 2012. Merah was killed in a police raid.
An article says that Musallam failed to follow orders, then tried to reach out to his father in a bid to come home, but that his Islamic State overseers became suspicious and imprisoned him. He later confessed, according to the article.
Musallam’s father dismissed the article as lies and propaganda.
The mother pointed to their small apartment, now crowded with cameras and reporters after news broke of the videotaped killing.
The forces of the international antiterrorist coalition that leads The United States have thrown 13 new air raids against positions of the militia Islamic State in Iraq in the last 24 hours. In a day without bombardments allied in Syria, the coalition has centered in the neighboring country, according to the spread balance sheet this Thursday for the force that coordinates these operations. Five of the assaults vehicles and excavators of the militiamen have reached yihadistas near Kirkuk's locality, whereas other bombardments have taken place near Faluya, against tactical units and a vehicle.
BAGHDAD — Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared Thursday that victory in Tikrit was near and “achieved totally by Iraqi hands” as his troops sought to root out Islamic State militants from their last few footholds in the city.Islamic State militants still held a sprawling palace complex built by Saddam Hussein and pockets of the city center. But military officials said they were confident that in a few days they would control the entire area, all without direct assistance from American airstrikes.That would be the most significant defeat for the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, since it swept into northern Iraq last June, carving a swath through the country that put the militants a short drive away from Baghdad and, within weeks, brought American forces back into Iraq after they had seemingly marched out for good in 2011.But that major step for the Iraqi government has come with an emphasis on Shiite militias and Iranian military officials in a leading role. American officials have expressed concerns that the presence of those forces in the Iraqi Sunni heartland could risk the same kind of sectarian alienation that left the country vulnerable to ISIS in the first place.
The French Justice has announced this Friday that it is investigating the possible implication of two suspects in the last yihadist attempts of Paris, in which 17 persons died, perpetrated between the 7th and 9th of last January. The District attorney's office only has contributed the names of Loving R., of 33 years, and of Said M., of 25 years.
Both have been detained in order to be interrogated and go under arrest from Monday, in agreement with the information offered by the French Justice. In addition, they stopped another man and a woman, that already they have been put at liberty. The supposed implication of Loving R. owes to itself that it knew in prison to Amedy Coulibaly, which assaulted a Jewish supermarket in the one that killed to four hostages. In addition, the communiqué of the District attorney's office assures that there are more than 600 text messages which have been interchanged between Amar R. and Coulibaly.
With regard to Said M., his DNA was found in a 'taser' found in the Jewish supermarket in which Coulibaly died to hands of the security forces of France. The investigation will try to quarrel if Said M. had something that to see in the preparation of the attempt.
An American military man has been hurt on having received a shot in Besmaya's base, being the first incident from the beginning of the mission of training to the Iraqi troops last year, as has reported this Friday the Pentagon. The soldier received the impact of a bullet in the nose when it was trying to locate from a barricade the origin of a point of light observed by a companion from a tower of vigilance, as has reported the spokesperson of the Pentagon, the colonel Steve Warren. This shot provoked a gunfire, in the one that more injured men did not produce to themselves. The soldier was treated in the base and later it continued with his work.
The incident took place in Besmaya's base in the dawn of March 11. Besmaya is one of many emplacements established by the American Army to train to the Iraqi security forces. Warren has coded in a hundred the American military men who are in this place, apart from the additional guards, who are American soldiers.
The spokesperson of the Pentagon has assured that this soldier has been the first member of the American Army in being hurt for a gunfire in an Iraqi base since it began the mission of training last year, which it has as aim help to attack the Islamic State.
The Army of The Lebanon has killed this Monday several supposed militiamen during an attempt of infiltration in the surroundings of Arsal's locality, located near the border with Syria, as has reported the state Lebanese agency of news, NNA. The incident has taken place hours after the Army was carrying out an operation against a group of persons that it tried to cross of illegal form the border in the region of Evenness Baalbek.
According to the information gathered by the Lebanese diary 'An Nahar', the Syrian Army bombarded with simultaneous form the positions of the groups armed in his side of the border. The Lebanese Army carried out at the beginning of March several operations against the positions of the groups Opposite to The Nusra and Islamic State in the frontier zone with Syria, a few actions that were applauded by several foreign countries.
The western services of Intelligence were alert last week of which the terrorist present groups in Syria would be preparing themselves to restart his assaults in Lebanese territory with the spring arrival. Military sources mentioned by the Lebanese diary ' The Daily Star ' have aimed that the clashes with these formations yihadistas is "inevitable", specially in the mountainous zone for which there happens the international road that connects both countries.
Gunmen in military uniforms killed 19 people on Wednesday in a midday attack on a museum in downtown Tunis, dealing a new blow to the tourist industry that is vital to Tunisia as it struggles to consolidate the only transition to democracy after the Arab Spring revolts.
Tunisian officials had initially said that the attackers took 10 hostages and killed nine people, including seven foreign visitors and two Tunisians. When security forces retook the museum about four hours later, however, the death toll more than doubled, raising questions about how and at what point the hostages had died.
Prime Minister Habib Essid said in a news conference that security forces had killed two gunmen inside the museum but that two or three accomplices might still be at large. He said 17 foreign visitors — including Polish, Italian, Spanish and German tourists — as well as two Tunisians, one of whom was a member of the security forces, had been killed in the attack. At least 22 others were wounded.
The Canadian Government has announced this Tuesday that will extend his military board against the terrorist group Islamic State realizing air bombardments against his positions both in Syria and in Iraq.
The motion approved by the Government indicates that Canada foresees to extend his mission of six months one year more until March, 2016. Canada possesses approximately 70 workforce of the special forces operating in the north of Iraq and six Canadian planes of combat are taking part in the missions of the coalition led by The United States against the terrorist group that Abu Bakr leads the Baghdadi.
The National Museum of the Bard has re-opened this Tuesday his doors, almost one week after the attempt perpetrated by a group of armed men linked to the Islamic State, which was paid by more than one score of dead men, the majority foreign tourists.
The Bard has re-opened his doors to 13.30 (local time) with a ceremony organized by the Department of Culture that has been decorated with national flags and placards in those who might be read " Visits Tunis " and entertained with a concert of the Symphonic Orchestra. At this inauguration only there have been present the invited authorities and the neighbors of Tunis who have wanted to observe the ceremony in the middle of strong measures of safety, because the reopening for the general public will take place this weekend.
The Department of Exteriors of Bangladesh has confirmed this Tuesday the liberation of two of his kidnapped citizens two weeks ago for the group yihadista Islamic State after an assault against a petroleum Lybian field.
" The citizens from Bangladesh Helal Uddin and Mohamad Anuar Hossain, employees of (the company VAOS) and kidnapped in Lybia have been liberated in the evening of March 24 ", has been indicated by across a communiqué.
Finally, the department has underlined that " the liberation has taken place thanks to the rapid initiatives and the constant efforts of the Department of Exteriors and of the Embassy of Bangladesh in Lybia ".
Lybia suffers the worst crisis from the fall and Muamar Gadafi's execution, on October 20, 2011. With two governments and two parliaments - only a few officials, those of Tobruk - and continuous fights in the East, there's a fear that the country falls down in another civil war.
- United Arab Emirates bombs the huthis positions in Yemen.(27th March 2015) Made by Irene Paradela.
Combat planes of United Arab Emirates (UAE) has bombarded this Friday the positions of the huthis in Yemen, on the third day of the regional offensive on the rebels chiíes to defend the Government of Abdo Rabbu Mansur Hadi, as has reported Al Arabiya. Saudi Arabia has assumed the leadership of the ' Operation Definitive Storm ', with that, close to UAE, Bahréin, Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt and Morocco it will try " to repel to the militias huthis, Al Qaeda and the Islamic State in Yemen.United Arab Emirates it bombards the positions huthis in Yemen The political crisis in Yemen, fruit of the internal disputes not solved with the fall of the Government of Alí Abdulá Salé, in 2011, it worsened last September with the irruption in Saná of the rebels chiíes. The huthis, which historically have claimed major autonomy for the north of Yemen, took Hadi and his Government to resigning in block last January, demonstrating this way the struggle for the control of a country at the edge of the civil war.
The Lybian Government has asked this Saturday for the raising of the seizure of weapon imposed by the UNO to facilitate so the Army fights to the Islamic State. " To whom they are opposed or delay that one arms the Lybian Army, I say to them that they are giving an opportunity to the terrorists of the Islamic State to bloom in Lybia and to spread beyond ", there has argued the president of the Lybian Parliament, Aqila Salé. " The neighboring countries will be first affected ", has been added by it. Salé has realized these declarations from Sharm the Sheij, Egypt, where there is celebrated a summit of the Arabic League in that it hopes that there is approved a military Arabic force capable of confronting the threats to the regional safety.
The Turkish security forces have detained five Dutch citizens who had tried to cross illegally the border with Syria to join allegedly the autoproclaimed Islamic State, as the Turkish Army has revealed this Sunday across a communiqué. The Turkish authorities, nevertheless, could not have confirmed the motive for which five arrested had travelled to Turkey to cross the border with Syria.
Regardless, they already count with the thousands of foreigners who have joined the Islamic State, the terrorist organization, which controls wide territories in Syria and Iraq. Turkey has faced in the last months critiques for possible lacks at the moment of controlling his borders with Syria and Iraq. Nevertheless, Ankara has answered that the European countries are those that first should have avoided the potentials yihadists going out of his countries.
Two Saudi policemen have been hurt for the strangers' shots while they realized a patrol in car for Riyadh, the capital of the kingdom, at the last moment of Sunday, as has reported this Monday the official agency SPA, which he mentions to a police spokesperson.
The Police are investigating the gunfire, which has taken place from another vehicle, according to the spokesperson. The injured men are deposited in a hospital and are stable, it has added. The Saudi security forces have been an object in the past of assaults on the part of militiamen suníes as Al Qaeda and supporters of Islamic State. Also they have been an object of assaults for some radical members of the minority chií of the country in Qatif's zone, in the Oriental Province.
The Saudi authorities informed on Thursday that the security forces are in alert raised due to the campaign of bombardments led by Riyadh against the rebels huthis in neighboring Yemen.
The clashes between the militiamen of Aknaf Bayt to the Maqdis, related to Hamás, and the Islamic State have been resumed this Monday in Yarmuk's Palestinian accession, located in the south of Damascus, which suffers the most difficult moments from the beginning of the civil war in Syria. The Syrian Observatory for the Human rights has reported that the combats have taken again this Monday with the launch of missiles land - land and approximately 20 barrels bomb, besides snipers.
" Still there is no information about the victims ", the Observatory has said, remembering that in these days of continuous clashes at least 33 persons have died. The Islamic State managed to enter last Wednesday Yarmuk with the militiamen's help of Opposite to The Nusra - Al Qaeda's subsidiary Syria - that they decided to leave this terrorist organization and to add to the rows of the Daesh.
Until now Yarmuk was controlled by an amalgam of armed groups opponents to the Syrian regime, which they have used the Palestinian refugees as human shields to avoid that the forces 'assadistas' were throwing an offensive.
The prime minister of Iraq, Haider to the Abadi, has announced this Monday a new alliance with the Government of the Iraqi Kurdistan "to "liberate" Nínive's province, specially the city of Mosul, of the terrorist group Islamic State. " Our visit to Erbil is to coordinate a joint plan to liberate the people of Nínive ", has said Al Abadi in the press conference that has offered together with the president of the autonomous region of the Kurdistan, Masud Barzani.
Al Abadi has underlined the importance of " designing the strategy " to recover Nínive, revealing that already have started the discussions on " military and economic coordination, without previous conditions ", as reports Rudaw. The chief of Government has made clear that Nínive's reconquest takes Mosul as a priority aim, one of the most important cities of Iraq, revealing that there is a precise calendar for his capture, though it has refused to detail it not to finish with " the surprise element ".
On the forces that will take part in the offensive on Nínive, Al Abadi has limited himself to saying that " his inhabitants will have a key paper in the liberation ". For your part, Barzani, has slid that there will be participation peshmerga (Kurdish soldiers), though his exact paper it will have to determine a 'ad hoc' committee.
At least 31 persons have died for the explosion of two car bombs attributed to Islamic State in a locality near to Alepo, in the north of Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for the Human rights (OSDH).
The bombs have exploded in the locality of Tide: in the surrounding areas of the barracks of a group rival and in another zone where it produces this organization. Between the deceased there appears a " local emir " of Opposite to The Nusra, Al Qaeda's subsidiary, as well as other two leaders of islamist facial features, according to the OSDH.
The Frente of The Nusra has recognized across Internet the death of one of his leaders for the explosion of a car bomb of Islamic State. The group yihadista has spread the image of a supposed corpse covered with a blanket.
Marea has turned into a scene of battle between forces rivals, though Islamic State has stopped his offensive. The roads that pass on Alepo's north part constitute a line of key supply for the present rebels in this city, which control is distributed between the insurgents and the regime.
The American citizen Joshua Ray Van Haften has been a defendant for the North American authorities to want to join the rows of the terrorist group Islamic State, as has reported the Department of American Justice. They go Haften, of Wisconsin, tried to travel to Iraq or Syria to join the terrorist organization. The 34-year-old man, has to appear in Madison's court throughout Thursday, after they were stopping it on eve in the International Airport of Chicago, when it was coming from one fly from Turkey.
The District attorneys accuse him of leaving the country and to go to Turkey on August 24, 2014, in that it is an intermediate stop for many soldiers who want to join the group yihadista due to his border with Syria. If he is declared a culprit, it might face a maximum of fifteen years of prison.
Once there, the suspect exchanged Facebook's messages with friends and supposed sympathizers with the autoproclaimed Islamic State, according to the district attorneys. In one of the messages of the social network, his companion of room was asking him that when it would come back home, answered to what They Go Haften that " Turkey is divided on to the decisión of attacking Syria or not, and if finally it is decided, I will attack them ". According to the District attorney's office, the suspect added that " it was going to cross Syria, but finally I did not do it. I wait to make it prompt, am tired of this life ".
The Government of Sweden has announced this Thursday the next sending of a military quota to Iraq to endorse the operations against the terrorist organization Islamic State. Stockholm answers this way to a request of Baghdad.
Sweden will send troops to Iraq to support the fight against Islamic State The secretaries of Exteriors and Defense, Margot Wallstrom and and Peter Hultqvist, respectively, they have signed a joint article in 'Dagens Nyheter' in which they consider the " cooperation against the terrorism " a tool "key" to defeat the yihadistas. In altars of the " common efforts ", the Swedish Government has agreed on the sending of 35 military men who will add to the deployment of international forces in the north of Iraq. This workforce will contribute to the formation of the Iraqi forces to improve his antiterrorist capacities. Wallstrom and Hultqvist already have advanced that, if the situation of the Arabic country deteriorates, Sweden is ready to extend his quota up to 120 military men.
The French television channel TV5 Peel he says to have suffered an assault " without precedents " on the part of 'hackers' who assure to belong to the Islamic State (EI). The blockade carried out by the pirates IT has concerned the television channel, the web pages and the accounts of the French chain in the social networks.
This way it has been confirmed by the general manager of TV5Monde, Helene Zemmour, who speaks about an assault " without previous and large-scale ". The chain has recovered the control on the majority of his platforms two hours after the assault was beginning.
The photographies that were appearing in the profiles of the chain in the social networks they were replaced with images of an islamist soldier masked, accompanied of a message in which it was possible to read: " The 'Cybercaliphate' continues his 'ciberyihad' against the enemies of the Islamic State ". The 'hackers' also have published documents in which there are threatened French soldiers who take part in operations against the terrorist group, as well as to his relatives, as it informs the BBC. France forms a part of the coalition led by The United States that carries out air raids against positions yihadistas in Iraq and Syria.
Eleven arrested as supposed yihadists this Wednesday in several Catalonian localities had the "will" to commit an outrage in Catalonia, where they were forming a part of an organized cell that was catching young women, it was toughening them and he them was sending to Syria and Iraq to fight close to the Islamic State.
The arrested are ten men - one minor - and a woman, of between 17 and 45 years and nationalities Spanish woman, Moroccan and Paraguayan, and five of them are " converted that had assumed the Islamic faith in his process of radicalization ", as has made clear the minister of Interior, Ramon Espadaler, in press conference.
" Much must make us think over that five are converted - Spanish four and a Paraguayan - and is something that demonstrates the great capacity of radicalization of the cell ", has alerted Espadaler, which has affirmed that the group has remained dismantled with the detentions, which have begun at four o'clock in the morning.
In the frame of the operation, which is low secret of summary, seven records have been realized in Terrassa, four in Sabadell, two in Barcelona - one in Sants's district-, two in Valls (Tarragona) and one in Sant Quirze of the Vallès: " The intention of committing an outrage in Catalonia already had remained proved before the actions of this dawn ", it has aimed Espadaler.
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A masked militant with a drawn knife, preparing to slaughter a helpless captive: This is how the group that was to become the Islamic State, more commonly known as ISIS, grabbed the world’s attention in 2004. The Islamic State has renamed and reinvented itself many times since then, but it still makes such scenes a staple of its propaganda.
“One who previously engaged in jihad knows that it is naught but violence, crudeness, terrorism, deterrence and massacring,” Abu Bakr Naji wrote in “The Management of Savagery,” the group’s key theoretical work. Other forces in the Middle East, like Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, can be just as brutal. But they try to conceal their brutality, while the Islamic State revels in its. Just as unusually, the Islamic State and its predecessors always seem to be seeking out new enemies. It bombed Iraq’s Shia majority while fighting an American occupation in 2004, and it killed Americans in 2014 to draw the United States into a war the Islamic State was already waging onmany fronts.Making so many enemies, and giving them so much motivation to fight, might seem self-defeating. But depressingly, its extremism appears to work: The Islamic State has eclipsed dozens of rival insurgent groups that at first glance look to be more deeply rooted in their societies; routed armies many times its size; and taken on every power in the region, from the United States to Iran to Al Qaeda, holding its own against all of them. Of these three new books on the Islamic State, only one quotes Yeats’s “The Second Coming,” but the others must have been tempted. Why must the “worst” — the most wantonly cruel — elicit the most passionate intensity?
These books each highlight different aspects of the group’s success. “ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror,” by Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan, the most comprehensive of the three, traces the group’s evolution and sheds particular light on how it both cows and co-opts the populations in the areas it controls. “ISIS: The State of Terror,” by Jessica Stern and J. M. Berger, is heavily focused on its online presence. Patrick Cockburn’s “The Rise of Islamic State” is a more argumentative work, centered on how errors made by ISIS’ foes paved its way.
Taken together, the books show that the Islamic State’s strategy can be remarkably sophisticated. It portrays itself as eager to rush in at the slightest sign of unbelief in order to cut throats, but in fact it has a more subtle and long-term design. The phrase “management of savagery,” which could be read as how to exploit terror, actually refers to something else: how to break down “apostate” regimes so that Muslim regions fall into a state of “savagery,” and then build a new order on top. The cruelty and the willingness to make enemies are necessary elements in both the breaking down and the building up, but they are only part of the equation.
Stern, a lecturer on terrorism at Harvard, and Berger, a nonresident fellow with the Brookings Institution, dissect the Islamic State’s messaging in some detail, showing how the cruelty is aimed at recruiting a very specific demographic, “angry, maladjusted young men” attracted to a total war against unbelief. The Islamic State also chooses its foes and battles so that it appears to be fulfilling Islamic End Times prophecies. Only a tiny percentage of the world’s Muslims may be receptive to such a message, but the Islamic State’s social media tactics reach so large an audience that the payoff is huge: Nearly 20,000 foreign volunteers have come to join jihadist groups in Iraq and Syria, according to one study cited by Stern and Berger.
The authors contrast the Islamic State’s messaging with Al Qaeda’s, and show why ISIS has ultimately been more successful. Al Qaeda may look down on its rival’s crudity, but ultimately, Stern and Berger argue, its worldview is more naïve and “nihilistic.” They locate Al Qaeda in the (mostly leftist) tradition of vanguard revolutionary movements that hope to awaken the masses via dramatic acts, but then take for granted that the masses will instinctively know what to do next. The Islamic State, rather than expecting radicalized Muslims to engage in spontaneous acts of resistance throughout the world, wants them where it can guide them closely: in its newly proclaimed caliphate. It intersperses beheading footage with images of pothole repair, clinics and apparently grateful civilians. Al Qaeda offers its followers martyrdom. Its caliphate won’t come into existence for generations. ISIS offers them a place in its nascent utopia today.
Weiss, a columnist for Foreign Policy, and Hassan, an analyst at the Delma Institute, a research center in Abu Dhabi, provide a detailed explanation of how the Islamic State “manages savagery” on the ground. They trace the group’s full history — how the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi made his way, from Afghanistan and Iran, to Iraq; how his “Monotheism and Holy War” movement exploited the security vacuum created by the American invasion to build his organization; how it established its mystique by plunging into key battles and federating with Al Qaeda; how it sparked a sectarian war with the Shia; how it antagonized powerful Sunni tribes and was brought to near extinction by the American-backed Sahwa (“Awakening”) movement; how it surged forward as Iran-backed Shia leaders who considered the Sahwa a threat persecuted Sunnis until they rebelled.
This account of the Islamic State in Iraq is a valuable summation, but it really shines when it reaches the group’s entry into Syria starting in 2011. Weiss and Hassan use their own interviews with members to draw out the range of motivations for why Syrians join such an extreme organization. Scholars may scoff at the group’s interpretation of Islam, but some Syrians appear to have been genuinely persuaded by the Islamic State’s theological arguments. Others have been disenchanted with less disciplined rebel movements, or decided that only ISIS could protect Syrian Sunnis from Shia or Kurdish aggression.
“ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror” shows how the Islamic State, despite its “barbarians at the gate” self-image, is quite capable of picking its battles. Weiss and Hassan argue that tacit understandings with the Assad regime in particular helped the group expand. During the American occupation of Iraq, Damascus let militants transit through its territory to join the battle, which both kept the jihadists busy and dampened American enthusiasm for regional regime change. After the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, Weiss and Hassan argue, Assad — who claimed from the beginning that the rebels were predominantly extremists — rallied non-Sunnis to his regime and reduced Western enthusiasm for his overthrow. Weiss and Hassan are not the first to make this observation, but they effectively lay out the evidence, including a mass amnesty for imprisoned militants and the Assad air force’s reluctance to hit ISIS targets.
Weiss and Hassan also show that the Islamic State learned from the backlash against it by tribes in Iraq. The group’s hostility to an economy based on patronage brought it into conflict with those tribes, so the Syrian branch now allows tribes to keep concessions in smuggling and other economic activity. But today’s Islamic State is just as heavy-handed as its earlier incarnation in its rigid enforcement of Shariah law, and its insistence on being the sole arbiter of disputes between tribes. This strategy might have led to resentment, but as things turned out, tribes valued its ability to keep order and curb banditry. Here, the Islamic State’s bloodthirstiness has proved an asset: The group’s enthusiasm for capital punishment extends to its own members if they are accused of corruption, allowing it to impose more discipline on its members than on less radical rebels. Its huge foreign contingent is also valuable, since those individuals can serve as impartial moderators and, if needed, be quickly deployed for shows of force.
Weiss and Hassan expect readers to know the general outline of the events they cover. Their book jumps from point to point and sometimes hangs sweeping assessments on a single analyst; it could use a lot more footnotes for its debatable assertions. But as the most serious book-length study of the Islamic State to be published so far, it may serve as the basis for a more definitive account of the group in the future.
Patrick Cockburn’s work is the most accessible but least detailed of the three. His account focuses on the miscalculations of the Islamic State’s foes. The United States is blamed not only for its original sin of having invaded Iraq but also for mishandling the Syria war. Washington assumed that Assad would go down to defeat and had no Plan B when he did not, nor did it grasp that a war in Syria would in time destabilize Iraq. Iraq’s prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, simultaneously backed the Sunnis into a corner while feeding a culture of corruption that left his military unable to handle the ensuing rebellion. Saudi Arabia funneled money to Syrian jihadis at the same time that its preachers railed against the Shia, ensuring a sectarian nightmare. Assad, for his part, overlooked the seeds of Syria’s uprising, then overestimated his security forces’ ability to keep it in check through brute coercion.
Cockburn, an experienced Mideast journalist, relies heavily on his own reporting. He offers revealing anecdotes on the decrepit state of the Iraqi Army, which collapsed before the Islamic State’s Mosul offensive, and some glimpses of the sluggish and brutal military stalemate in Syria. But his book does little to explain why the Islamic State, rather than its Sunni rivals, managed to seize the opportunities offered by its foes. Cockburn describes a continuing tragedy in which hubris and optimism destroyed a seemingly promising revolution, but few insights into the inner workings of the extremists who came out on top.
Were post-hussein Iraq and Assad’s Syria doomed to sink into the “savagery” that the Islamic State was poised to exploit? And is there any way out? Cockburn is unremittingly pessimistic, suggesting that the two countries may be finished as unified states. Weiss and Hassan, by stressing the role played by the Assad regime in the Islamic State’s rise, seem anxious to absolve Syria’s revolution of having led inexorably to extremism. But they are gloomy about the future: They do not see American bombing as having seriously shaken ISIS’ hold. Meanwhile, the group has taken steps to forestall a new Sahwa. Stern and Berger, with their emphasis on information technology, imply that the Islamic State is as much a consequence of its time as of its place: It cornered a niche market with a message of ultraviolence. But the authors hold out the hope that if the Islamic State is contained, it may rot under the burden of its inflated expectations.
The Islamic State’s defeat by Kurdish fighters and American air power at Kobane, and Baghdad’s assault on Tikrit, suggest that its days of easy victories may be coming to an end. If it is deprived of those, its mystique and ability to attract foreign recruits may wane. But at the same time, the group is metastasizing, with local groups in Egypt, Libya and most recently Nigeria pledging allegiance. Insofar as it can find new savagery to manage, the Islamic State may be with us for a long time.
Islamic State militants have seized most of a sprawling Palestinia refugee district in the southern part of the Syrian capital, Damascus, an area that has been under siege and bombardment for nearly two years already, according to Palestinian and United Nations officials and residents.
The officials called for quick action by international organizations, the Syrian government and all armed groups to head off an unfolding catastrophe. Reports of killings and even beheadings were beginning to circulate on Saturday, worsening what is already a longstanding humanitarian nightmare for the 18,000 residents of the Yarmouk refugee camp.
By seizing much of the camp, the Islamic State terrorist group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, made its greatest inroads yet into Damascus, a significant step for a group that rose largely in the northern and eastern provinces of Syria, far from the capital. Yet at the same time, the move suggests that as the Islamic State loses ground in Iraq and northeastern Syria, the most daring response it could muster on the ground was to attack one of the most vulnerable populations in Syria
Most of all, the attack was a perverse answer to the question of how life in Yarmouk could get worse. Many residents’ very presence there is a scar from a previous war; they are descended from Palestinians who fled or were driven from their homes in the 1948 war over Israel’s founding.
More recently, they have been blockaded and bombarded by the Syrian goverment for nearly two years, and ruled internally by a tangled web of armed groups, including Syrian insurgents and Palestinian factions, said by residents to siphon scarce food to their own fighters and families.
While Palestinian leaders had initially sought to maintain neutrality in Syria’s war, in reality, Palestinian refugees living in Syria — who had more rights there than in other countries and therefore had a greater stake in society — have strong sympathies on both sides of the conflict. Some supported President Bashar al-Assad, seeing him as a champion of the Palestinian cause, while others became leaders in the initial political uprising against him. Hamas, the powerful Palestinian Sunni militant group, broke with Mr. Assad over what it saw as his repression of an uprising led by fellow Sunni Muslims, but has lately sought a measure of reconciliation.
Nevertheless, Palestinians are caught in the middle, and most of the camp’s 160,000 prewar residents, once the world’s largest concentration of Palestinian refugees outside the West Bank and Gaza, have been scattered in what some are calling a second Nakba, or catastrophe, the Palestinians’ name for the events of 1948.
“For over 700 days, the camp has been the victim of a draconian siege, which has resulted in the death by starvation of at least 200 Palestinians,” Saeb Erekat, the longtime Palestinian peace negotiator with Israel, said in a statement issued Saturday that called on all parties to provide civilians with safe passage out of the “death tra
He said the humanitarian disaster underscored the vulnerability of Palestinian refugees and their need for a “right of return” to reclaim homes in what is now Israel, one of the thorniest issues in world affairs. But for the time being, he added, “Yarmouk shall remain a testament to the collective human failure of protecting civilians in times of war.”
The fighting in Yarmouk was also a testament to the complexity of the Syrian conflict, where various insurgent groups are battling both the government and the Islamic State amid shifting and contradictory alliances.
At first, the latest chapter appeared to have begun with low-level disputes between ISIS militants in the neighboring suburb of Hajar al-Aswad and members of a Hamas-affiliated militia in the camp, Aknaf Bayt al-Maqdis.
But as the Hamas-linked fighters clashed with ISIS and tried to keep it from establishing a foothold in the camp, members of the Nusra Front, a Qaeda affiliate that has a major presence there, did not help, several residents said. Some said that despite its rivalry with the Islamic State elsewhere, the Nusra Front actively prevented other insurgent groups from sending reinforcements from nearby suburbs, and that many of its members defected to ISIS.
Anwar Raja, a spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, a pro-Assad group, said Nusra and the Islamic State were “all the same” and the latest fighting showed that recent talks to reach a settlement for the camp were “nonsense and promotion for terrorism.”
In spite of the difficulties they face, Yarmouk residents have continued to produce films and music about their and Syria’s plight, making the camp a symbol of resilience as well as suffering. But adding an ISIS occupation onto everything else, one Palestinian resident of Damascus said, “would be catastrophic.”
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Posible trouble in Catalonia, has been stoped (10/04/2015 15:45 ) by Alicia Ruiz
The 11 yihadists have declared, and it has been found out that they pretended to kidnap a person in Catalonia. What they wanted to do was to film the person while they were cutting the victim's head. This way, they could publish it on the internet, using the video, as a way of intimidating people, like Jhon the Yihadist did previously.
Around 50.000 of Spanish people has become a yihadist, each time, more people become a yihadist. The first case was the one of an asturian man, called Jesus Galá, and other example could be Auraki.
What is the Islamic State? What Origins child SUS? And your intentions? The simplicity of these questions is misleading. Few Western leaders seem to know the answers. "Do not even understand the concept," admitted the General Michael K. Nagata, head of US Special Operations in the Middle East, in comments Confidential Posts by The New York Times in December. In the last year, Barack Obama has said the Islamic State "is un-Islamic" and, at other times, which is a subsidiary of Al Qaeda, a statement that reflected the confusion and important, perhaps, they have led CoMeter Strategic mistakes.
The Islamic State (EI) took the city of Mosul (Iraq) in June 2014 and UN controls territory managers largest UK. Abubaker al Baghdadi is the leader since 2010, but do Recent Most image, until last summer, when a blurry photograph of the Age who was imprisoned at Camp Bucca, during the US occupation of Iraq. When the July 5, 2014 I went up to the pulpit of the Great Mosque of Al Nuri, in Mosul, proclaim para Prime caliph in generations, Paso blurred the High Resolution Image and guerrilla in search and seizure of a head supreme of all Muslims. Since then he has not stopped the flow of jihadists from around the world to the territory controlled by the Islamic State.
Our ignorance of this movement is partly understandable: a hermit kingdom and few of those who have gone there have become. Al-Baghdadi has spoken before the cameras only once. But his words, like all other propaganda videos and encyclicals of the Islamic State, are on the Net, and followers of the caliphate have made enormous efforts to make your project known: reject peace principle; hunger for genocide; his religious vision is totally incompatible with certain types of changes that might even guarantee their survival, and considers himself a primarily player-and herald imminent end of the world.The Islamic State, also called Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (Daesh in Arabic, English ISIS), is guided by a stream of Islam with a peculiar conception of the way to the Day of Judgment. This belief determines its strategy and can help the West to know your enemy and predict their behavior. His rise to power, rather than look to win the Muslim Brotherhood Egypt-whom the Islamic State considered apostates, it resembles the materialization of a dystopian alternate reality and, like David Koresh or Jim Jones [leaders of two of the best known of the world] suicide sects have survived to dominate not just a few hundred adherents, but eight million people.
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